Max Reger (1873-1916) was the greatest German composer for organ after Johann Sebastian Bach. His extensive series of works for the instrument include the popular Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, the Symphonic Fantasia and Fugue, which he called his most technically challenging, and the glorious sequence of Choral Preludes, a body of work of huge complexity and transparency that reveals an inexhaustible variety and invention. Recorded over a fifteen-year period in stunning digital sound, this critically acclaimed series, now available in one all-encompassing 16CD box, features Reger’s complete organ music played by twelve internationally admired organists – Wolfgang Rubsam, Christian Barthen, Josef Still and Kirsten Sturm among them – on seven different organs.
Bach, J S:
Toccata in D minor, BWV913
Christian Barthen (organ)
Two-part Inventions Nos. 1-15, BWV772-786
Christian Barthen (organ)
Reger:
Fantasia über den Choral ‘Ein feste Burg’ Op. 27
Martin Welzel (organ)
Fantasie über ”Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele”, Op. 30
Martin Welzel (organ)
Fantasia on the Chorale ‘Wie schön leucht’ uns der Morgenstern’, Op. 40 No. 1
Josef Still (organ)
Fantasia über den Choral ‘Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn’ Op. 40 No. 2
Josef Still (organ)
Chorale Fantasias (3), Op. 52
Josef Still (organ)
Chorale Preludes (13), Op. 79b
Hans-Jurgen Kaiser (organ)
Christ ist erstanden von dem Tod
Josef Still (organ)
Easy Chorale Preludes (52), Op. 67
Martin Welzel (organ)
Easy Preludes and Fugues (5), Op. 56
Josef Still (organ)
Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
Josef Still (organ)
Fantasie und Fuge C minor, Op. 29
Christian Barthen (organ)
Fantasy & Fugue in D minor, Op. 135b
Hans-Jürgen Kaiser (organ)
Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op. 46
Hans-Jürgen Kaiser (organ)
Fugue in C minor, WoO IV/8
Christian Barthen (organ)
Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor
Martin Welzel (organ)
Introduction and Passacaglia in F minor, Op. 63
Josef Still (organ)
Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue Op. 127
Ludger Lohmann (organ)
Introduction, Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, in F -sharp Minor, Op. 73
Martin Welzel (organ)
Chorale Preludes (30), Op. 135a
Ludger Lohmann (organ)
Komm, süsser Tod
Josef Still (organ)
Monologues, Op. 63, Nos. 1–4
Wolfgang Rubsam (organ)
Monologues, Op. 63, Nos. 7–12
Christian Barthen (organ)
O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Josef Still (organ)
O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid
Josef Still (organ)
Organ Pieces (12), Op. 65
Stefan Frank (organ)
Sieben Stücke Op. 145
Edgar Krapp (organ)
Organ Pieces (9), Op. 129
Ludger Lohmann (organ)
10 Pieces for Organ, Op. 69
Bernard Haas (organ)
Zwölf Stücke, Op. 80
Hans-Jürgen Kaiser (organ)
Drei Stücke, Op. 7
Christian Barthen (organ)
Postludium
Wolfgang Rubsam (organ)
Präludium und Fuge in D minor, WoO IV/10
Christian Barthen (organ)
Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor (1912)
Martin Welzel (organ)
Präludium und Fuge in G sharp minor, WoO IV/15
Martin Welzel (organ)
Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, WoO 8, No. 6
Christian Barthen (organ)
Preludes and Fugues (4), Op. 85
Bernard Haas (organ)
Romanze in A minor (1904)
Martin Welzel (organ)
Organ Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 33
Christian Barthen (organ)
Organ Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 60
Stefan Frank (organ)
Zwölf Stücke, Op. 59
Hans-Jurgen Kaiser (organ)
Suite G minor, Op. 92
Kirsten Sturm (organ)
Erste Suite E minor, Op. 16
Kirsten Sturm (organ)
Symphonic Fantasia and Fugue, Op. 57
Edgar Krapp (organ)
Six Trios Op. 47
Martin Welzel (organ)
Variations and Fugue on ‘Heil unserm König, Heil!’, WoO IV/7
Josef Still (organ)
Fantasia on the Chorale ‘Wie schön leucht’ uns der Morgenstern’, Op. 40 No. 1
Josef Still (organ)